NetScaler Gateway and StoreFront Deployment Guide

Tying it all together

Designing and building a new Citrix environment involves a lot of moving pieces. For example, you cannot fully build StoreFront without having XenApp servers to connect for XML services and you cannot launch applications until you build your XenApp servers and publish those applications. On the other hand, you cannot effectively test XenApp until you have StoreFront built and can validate your applications. The same goes for NetScaler, do you define your load balanced servers first or do you build your individual components first then define your load balanced servers?

This creates a lot of chicken and egg problems. That is why planning is so important. At this point, refer back to your reference architecture and the virtual machine planning sheets. Ideally, you have laid out what you are going to do long before we do it. Since we know what will be defined where, we can build elements and define references to objects that might not be built yet. Once we have all of the individual components built, we can they tie them in to together and complete our testing.